Reel Life March 2025 - Wellington

Autumn Angling Is In Full Swing!

It’s been an exceptional fishing season in the lower North Island. 

As well as settled weekend weather, we’ve had one of the best cicada seasons in years, making for spectacular dry fly action. 

Despite the hot summer, we’ve had just enough freshes to keep river levels topped up and the water temperature down. 

Our drift dive programme is now completed – as well as revealing excellent trout numbers throughout the Wellington Fish & Game region, the fish are in superb condition.

Image above: Blake Murray with a stonking lower North Island brown caught last week.

Photos of recent catches certainly attest to this! If you’d like the latest information on what’s been happening in the region and to see some of the stunning fish being caught, please sign up for our weekly fishing – the Lower North Lowdown – by the office. 

The weather is starting to cool as we head towards the tail end of the season, but the fishing is heating up as trout now start to congregate in and around spawning streams in numbers. 

Get amongst it!